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Introduction. 



TO sufferers from the various forms of 
lung and throat diseases, New Mexico 
offers climatic conditions of especial friend- 
liness. Here are found a very dry and 
aseptic air, a light atmospheric pressure, 
maximum of sunshine and minimum of 
cloud, slight variations in temperature, and 
a porous, dry soil. This is the land of sun- 
shine and blue skies. It is never uncomfort- 
ably warm in summer, when one is shaded 
from the sun's direct rays. There are no 
discomforts of winter blizzards and freezing 
winds; and the air has a crisp freshness. 
The dryness is perpetual, not intermittent. 

Naturally the invalid struggling with con- 
sumption, bronchitis, asthma, etc., has a 
better chance for recovery where external 
conditions are helpful, not hurtful. In many 
cases the chance becomes a certainty, and 
rugged health succeeds chronic invalidism. 
The paramount value of "climate cure" is 
attested by extracts (appearing elsewhere 
herein) from reports on that subject by prom- 
inent European physicians. The special 
argument for New Mexico as offering the 
best available climate in this country is 
presented by other practitioners. 

The term New Mexico is abroad one, and 
comprehends a variety of local conditions. 
The northern section is higher, drier and 



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colder than the southern ; the mountain dis- 
tricts and table-lands differ from the valley 
regions, but the general characteristics are 
the same — plenty of sunshine and pure, dry, 
rarified air. 

New Mexico extends southward nearly to 
the thirty-first parallel, which is the northern 
boundary of Florida. Its elevation above 
the sea ranges from 4,000 to 7,000 feet, the 
average being 5,600. This means a temper- 
ature equivalent to that of the New England 
coast, other things being equal, because 
every 800 feet of elevation is climatically 
equivalent to a degree of northerly latitude 
at sea level. But other things are not equal. 
As stated. New Mexico is a country of 
sparse rainfall, and there is only a slight 
humidity in the atmosphere. Fogs are un- 
known. The result is an unusually equable 
climate, little affected by summer heat o: 
winter cold. 

There are few days in the year when it 
is unsafe for invalids to venture outdoors. 
In summer, the sun's rays, while ardent, are 
never harmful; in the shade and at night 
the air is always cool. When winter comes, 
though deep snow may cover the mountain 
tops, it rarely falls on the lower levels, and 
does not stay there long, but melts away 
rapidly in the genial warmth of the sun. 
Yet disagreeable rain and snow flurries 
sometimes come, though not so frequent nor 
so severe as in other less favored localities. 
Visitors should not be disturbed by them. 
It is impossible to live without some precip- 
itation of moisture. Wait for the sun's long 
and glorious reign to begin again, and you 



will gladly stay indefinitely. Pine, pinon, 
cedar and spruce trees grow abundantly in 
the mountain districts, filling the air with 
balsamic odors. There is no malaria; hay 
fever is a stranger, and epidemics of acute 
intestinal diseases never occur. 

While New Mexico is pre-eminently a 
resort for consumptives, it also attracts 
those troubled with kidney and rheumatic 
diseases. Persons afflicted with inflamma- 
tory ailments and heart disease should avoid 
high altitudes here as elsewhere. 

The term "health resorts" is not used 
herein in a restricted sense. It indicates 
any place where one's physical condition 
may be bettered by baths and medical treat- 
ment, or by merely being out in the open air, 
engaged in hunting, fishing, riding, walking, 
etc. The accommodations at each town 
mentioned in the following pages are 
plainly set forth, so that the reader may 
know exactly what to expect in that 
respect. To summarize: Sanatoriums and 
other special facilities for invalids are only 
found all the year round at Las Vegas 
Hot Springs, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Ojo 
Caliente, Las Cruces and El Paso. The 
others are either summer pleasure resorts, 
like Jemez Springs, Sulphur Springs and 
El Porvenir, or they are cities and villages, 
some of which possess certain business 
advantages, and all of which have New 
Mexico's universal endowment of pure 
mountain air. 

The United States government has estab- 
lished two important sanatoriums in New 



Mexico, located at Ft. Bayard and Ft. Stanton 
respectively, for the treatment of soldiers and 
sailors suffering from diseases of the respira- 
tory tract, thereby emphasizing the curative 
properties of New Mexico's superb climate- 
There are many seekers after health who 
must make a living while they are getting 
well. For their guidance a few pages are 
devoted to data concerning the avocations 
open to invalids, who can perform light 
manual labor. This information will also 
be of value to still another class, who, after 
having been restored to good health by the 
climate of New Mexico, must remain in that 
region in order to avoid a relapse, and who 
eventually find it necessary or desirable to 
engage in business. 

The attention of physicians who may not 
have visited New Mexico is respectfully 
invited to the expert medical testimony 
which appears herein. 

Invalids should be urged to go in the 
early stages of disease. Marvelous cures 
are effected by this climate, but absolute 
miracles should not be expected. 

Round-trip tickets at reduced rates are on 
sale from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, 
Denver and other principal cities, every day 
in the year, to Las Vegas Hot Springs, and 
during the winter tourist season (November 
I to April 30), to Deming and El Paso. 

For detailed information respecting ticket 
rates, etc., address W. J. Black, G. P. A., A. 
T. & S. F. Ry., Topeka, Kan.,C. A. Higgins, 
A. G. P. A., A. T. & S. F. Ry., Chicago, 111., 
or any representative of Santa Fe Route. 



2IIK||- The City of Albuquerque is 

located in the Rio Grande val- 
(|UCr(|UC« ley, on main line of A. T. & S. 
F. Ry. at its junction with the Santa Fe 
Pacific R. R. Altitude, 4,935 feet above sea 
level. The city lies on the sunny slope of a 
broad plain, and is amply protected against 
sudden storms by high mountain ranges ten 
miles to the east and fifty miles south. The 
winters are generally open and bright, and 




MAIN BUSINESS STREET OF ALBUQUERQUE. 

the atmosphere almost wholly devoid of 
humidity. Average noon temperature for 
the year varies from 55° in December, 53° 
in January and 57° in February, to 82° in 
June, 89° in July and 86° in August. 

Albuquerque is divided into two sections, 
the "old" and "new" — the ancient settle- 
ment being close to the river, and the 
modern portion quite a distance away. One 
dates back to the Spanish invasion; the 
other had its beginning with the advent of 
the Santa Fe Railway. The new town has a 



population of 10,000; prevailing nationality, 
American. The old town contains 2,000 
people, nearly all Mexicans. There are 
eleven churches, one university, one college, 
two academies, and several public schools. 
Social advantages are numerous and all 
prominent secret orders are represented in 
Albuquerque. A commercial club owning a 
magnificent $100,000 building is the nucleus 
of a wide and beneficent hospitality, and 
assists the business interests of the commun- 
ity. A public sewer system, street-car lines, 
water, gas and electric light plants, etc., are 
additional proofs of civic advancement. 

Although never extensively advertised as 
a health resort, Albuquerque possesses valid 
claims for being so considered. Here are 
the three great essentials — pure air, pure 
water and abundant sunshine ; and there are 
ample provisions for taking care of strangers. 
Nearly three hundred persons can be com- 
fortably accommodated in hotels, one thou- 
sand in boarding houses and two hundred 
in private families. 

At the Sturgess European Hotel (one 
hundred guests) and at the Highland Hotel 
(one hundred and fifty guests) the rates are 50 
cents to $1 per day European plan, and $2 per 
day American plan. The Highland (recently 
refitted) is now a very attractive hotel with its 
cozy guest rooms, steam heat, electric lights 
and bells and reading room. The dining 
room is prettily decorated and the meals 
served there are more like home living than 
one usually finds in the west. Accommo- 
dations may be secured at the Grand Cen- 
tral, Strong Block, Golden Rule Block and 
Arlington lodging houses for 50 cents to $1 



per day. Among the numerous private 
boarding houses may be mentioned those 
managed by Mrs. Kelleher, Mrs. H. C. 
Mason, Mrs. Helen Hawleyand Mr. M. Kel- 
logg; each of these can care for about 
twenty persons ; their rates vary from $8 to 
$12 per week Meals alone may be procured 
at first-class restaurants and boarding houses 
for $4.50 and $7 a week, and nicely furnished 
rooms rent for $8 to $15 by the month. If 
economy is an object, and one is willing to 
put up with fewer comforts, there are many 
places where the cost of living is less than 
the figures named. 

Ten physicians, many of them specialists 
in the treatment of lung and throat troubles, 
and a number of competent nurses, make 
this city their headquarters. At present 
Albuquerque has no sanatorium. Those 
needing the special treatment and care 
only afforded in such institutions must look 
elsewhere. 

The Cojjotc n^incral Springs are twelve 
miles from Albuquerque. Their sparkling 
waters are highly esteemed as containing 
valuable curative properties. They are 
mild, laxative and diuretic, possessing 
value in the cure of diseases of the liver and 
kidneys, as well as for dyspepsia, chronic 
rheumatism, and gout. A bottling estab- 
lishment has for years been engaged in 
putting up these waters in a convenient and 
inexpensive form for home use and ship- 
ment to consumers in the east. This is a 
favorite place for summer visitors, and is a 
pleasure rather than a health resort. 



The JemCZ Rot Springs, in the beautiful 
Jemez Mountains, are within forty-five miles 
of Albuquerque, being connected therewith 
by two stage lines, which make daily trips 
during the summer months. These stages 
leave Albuquerque in the morning, and 
reach Jemez by evening; fare, $12 for round 
trip. The Jemez Springs are located in San 
Diego Canon, 6,620 feet above the sea, sur- 
rounded by pine forests and lofty moun- 
tains. There are several groups of springs 
here; those at Archeluta and two miles 
farther north are most frequented. Board 
and lodging at any of the three hotels costs 
from $7 to $10 per week. Parties desiring 
to camp out may hire tents at a moderate 
rental. This is principally a summer resort. 

The Sulpbur Springs are reached from 
Albuquerque by taking the stage for Jemez 
Hot Springs, and transferring to the stage 
for the Sulphurs, a distance of twelve miles. 
They are also reached by boarding the early 
morning train at Albuquerque for Thornton, 
and there taking the stage, which goes 
to the Sulphurs through Bland and the 
Cochiti mining district. The altitude here 
is 8,250 feet. The springs are in a beauti- 
ful mountain valley, and consist of several 
groups of geyser-like fountains, which are 
continually bubbling and boiling. These 
turbid pools have medicinal virtues that 
are possessed by few springs in the world, 
they being especially efficacious for all 
diseases of the blood. Bath houses are 
built over two of these groups of geysers, so 
that the full benefit of the vapor, as well as 




THE RAIN DANCE AT COCHITI PUEBLO. 



the mud baths, is obtained. Accommoda- 
tions consist of a new hotel of fifteen rooms, 
the old hotel now being used as an annex. 
There are also several cottages that are for 
rent during the summer, and excellent facil- 
ities exist for camping parties, which gen- 
erally constitute three-fourths of the summer 
visitors. 

Camp Wbitcomb, eighteen miles from the 
city on the south slope of the Sandia Moun- 
tains, with an elevation of 8,000 feet, is a 
delightful and very popular summer resort. 
There are a number of beautiful canons in 
these mountains, making pleasant places 
for camping parties. 



f)^ttlit1^ Deming, in Grant County 
at the junction of the Atchi- 
son, Topeka & Santa Fe and Southern 
Pacific lines, contains a population of 1,300, 
mostly Americans. 

While particularly noted as a cattle ship- 
ping point and a railroad junction point, law 
and order prevail, and the social advantages 
are excellent. This is evidenced by the 
numerous church organizations, the various 
secret societies and the fine graded school 
system. 

Opportunities for outdoor recreation are 
unlimited. Splendid roads for riding or 
driving; tennis courts abound, and bicycling 
has many ardent devotees. 

South of the city (a day's drive over 
good country roads), is Lake Palomas, the 
only large body of water for miles around. 



It is the resort of wild ducks, etc. North 
of Deming in the mountains, the streams 
abound in trout, and deer and wild turkey 
are found in the same neighborhood. Cat- 
tle round-ups and glimpses of life among 
the miners afford further diversions. 

The altitude of Deming is 4,315 feet; the 
immediate vicinity is level, surrounded by 
distant mountains. 

Every winter numerous visitors arrive 
from all parts of the country seeking a longer 
lease of life. Many are cared and all bene- 
fited. Deming is the center of the sunshine 
region of the southwest. Percentage of sun- 
shine for fall and winter months, 73.7 per 
cent, as compared with 61.7 per cent at Den- 
ver, 61.2 per cent at San Diego and 42.3 per 
cent at Cincinnati. Average noon tempera- 
ture: Spring, 70*^; summer, go*'; fall, 75*^; 
winter, 56°. A pleasant breeze from the 
mountains tempers the summer heat, and the 
nights are always cool. The physicians 
here have made a special study of lung and 
throat troubles. Invalids are at present 
cared for in hotels, boarding houses and 
private families. 

The Union Depot Hotel (accommodating 
thirty guests) is operated by Mr. Fred Har- 
vey. Its airy rooms, broad verandas and fine 
cuisine, render it a favorite stopping place 
for both invalids and tourists; rates, $3 per 
day; reasonable terms by week or month 
quoted on application. At Hotel Dewey 
and the Commercial Hotel the rates are $1.50 
per day. Each of these houses can accom- 
modate fifteen guests. 



The cost of living is not exorbitant. An 
economical family can get along nicely on 
from $15 to $20 per month for provisions. 
Rent is from $10 to $25 per month, the latter 
securing the best houses in town and some 
of them furnished. Board is from $20 to $35 
per month. Mrs. E. Pettey offers both lodg- 
ing and board for $8 per week and $30 per 
month, while Mrs. H. A. Gale can accom- 
modate twenty lodgers with rooms only (no 
meals), at $3 to $5 per week and $10 to $20 
per month. 

Concerning Deming, Drs. S. D. Swope 
and Carl Hagen say: 

"The climate is one of the best in the 
world. The percentage of sunshine, 73.8 
per cent, is the highest in the United States, 
being nearest approached by San Diego, 
Cal., and Denver, Colo., with 61 per cent 
each. 

"This region has a summer climate a 
little cooler than the State of New York, 
and a winter climate a few degrees warmer 
than that of Charleston, S. C. Deming is 
fairly well sheltered from winds, and has a 
most excellent water supply. Experience 
demonstrates that consumptives do well 
here. When properly managed, they im- 
prove in strength and weight, and often 
entirely recover." 




STREET SCENE IN EL PASO 



& Feldman, Photo. 



Ct P3S0 The City of El Paso, Texas, 
(population nearly 18,000), sit- 
uated in the lower Rio Grande Valley, mid- 
way between Kansas City and the City of 
Mexico, is noted not only as a commercial 
metropolis and railroad center, but as a 
favored place for those who would escape 
the inclemencies of a northern winter. The 
altitude is 3,687 feet — high enough to be 
bracing, and yet not so far above the sea as 
to embarrass the heart's action. 

The adjacent mountain ranges of Old and 
New Mexico give variety and a rugged 
beauty to the landscape. Mt. Franklin is 
7,000 feet high. The latitude of El Paso is 
the same as that of Savannah, Ga., with the 
advantage of being higher above tide-water, 
the inhabitants of the former place thus 
escaping any of the debilitating effects that 
may follow residence in a moister region. 

El Paso was settled by the Spaniards in 
1549. Since then it has been successively 
under the sway of Mexico, the Republic of 



Texas and the United States. The city is 
built almost entirely of brick, possesses 
waterworks and sewerage systems, paved 
streets, electric lights and other evidences 
of modern industrial and social develop- 
ment, such as churches, kindergartens and 
opera house. 

The soil is sandy and very porous. Average 
annual rainfall is eleven inches. It is true 
that the summers are rather hot. One does 
not go south in August to escape heat. Yet 
the dry atmosphere makes the effect of the 
heat less enervating than the thermometer 




HOTEL DIEU SANATORIUM, EL PASO.' B"shong & Feldman, Photo. 

would indicate; and no one suffers. In 
winter the entire season is charming. Clear 
days predominate, and merely to be out of 
doors and breathe the pure air is an un- 
alloyed pleasure; indeed, it is said that only 
three cloudy days is the yearly average. 
Persons suffering from asthma, phthisis 
and bronchitis will find the climate of El 
Paso very helpful. The annual death rate 
averages only seven per thousand, as against 



twenty-six in New York ; and this is swelled 
by the large numbers who come to El Paso 




VIEW OF MT. FRANKLIN, EL PASO. 

in an extremely advanced state of disease. 
Sanitary regulations are rigidly enforced. 

The city has several large hotels, such as 
the Sheldon, Pierson, Lindell, Orndorff and 
St. George, the rates varying from $2 to $4 per 
day, on the American plan. A market abund- 
antly supplies products of the temperate and 
semi-tropical zones. Many places abound 
where rooms — either with or without meals — 
may be obtained in private families at very 
reasonable rates. The cost of living is not 
high, all things considered. In a social way 
there is little left to be desired. Being on 
the border of the Republic of Mexico, pleas- 
ant excursions may be made at small ex- 
pense to neighboring points of interest. 
Juarez, the Mexican city (population 10,000), 
which occupies the opposite bank of the 
river, is wholly un-American in its customs 
and architecture; and by the investment 
of a dime for street-car fare one may, in a 
limited sense, take a foreign tour. 

Special attention is called to Hotel Dieu, 



a sanatorium conducted by the Sisters of 
Charity and located on the south side of the 
city. This magnificent structure ranks with 
the finest in the west, and is kept in first- 
class condition. The building is solidly 
constructed of brick and stone, and so ar- 
ranged that all rooms have good light and 
are well ventilated. Steam-heated apart- 
ments and halls insure an even temperature 
whenever there is a morning or evening 
chill in the air. It is supplied with an ele- 
vator. Private apartments, including 
board, fire, light, and attendance, range in 
price from $8 to $20 per week. Meals are 
either served in the patient's room or in the 
main dining hall, as desired. Sufferers 
from contagious diseases are not admitted. 




EL PASO SUBURBS 



£3$ Located in the fertile Mesilla 

y% ^ Valley (the local name for that 

VrUvCS* portion of the Rio Grande 
Valley in this vicinity), with the magnificent 
Organ Mountains forming an impressive 
background, and the near-by Rio Grande 



River giving a touch of silver to the browns 
and reds and greens of the lowlands, is the 
attractive city of Las Cruces ("town of the 
crosses") whose population of nearly 3,500 
souls keeps in touch with the outer world 
by means of the A. T. & S. F. Ry. Two 
Protestant mission schools, a Catholic acad- 
emy, public schools, the territorial agricul- 
tural college and U. S, experimental station 
combine to make Las Cruces an educa- 
tional center. It is a banking town ; has 
Western Union and Postal telegraph offices; 
long distance telephone connecting with 
the lower Mesilla Valley towns, and with 
El Paso, Texas ; large mercantile estab- 
lishments and well-stocked drug stores. 
It is the residence of many professional 
and literary persons. 

The altitude of the city is 3,850 feet, and 
of the Organ Mountains, twelve miles 
distant, 8,949 feet. The climate is dry ; 
average annual rainfall for last twenty 
years, only eight inches. Mean maximum 
temperature during the years 1892 to 1899 
has been : For the three spring months, 
76.37°; summer, 92.17°; fall, 78.02°; winter, 
58.22°. During the same period the mean 
minimum temperatures have been 40.65°, 
60.26°, 40.86° and 22.94°, respectively. These 
figures, which are furnished by the New 
Mexico College of Agriculture, are accurate 
and attest the remarkable equability of the 
climate. There are only twenty-five cloudy 
days in the year; in winter the average is 
four cloudy days monthly. The remainder 
are either clear or fair. 



Sight-seers will be interested by drives to 
the Alameda, Mesilla Park, the agricultural 
college farm. Van Patten's Camp, the 
Shalem Colony (a co-operative home for 
city waifs), the quaint old Mexican villages 
of Mesilla, Tortugas and Dona Ana ; also 
the Sacramento and Organ mountains. 
Those fond of field sports will find in the 
surrounding country an abundance of quail, 
rabbits, doves, ducks and geese. 

The Don Bernardo is a new hotel, with 
accommodations for thirty guests ; rates, 
$2.50 per day, $10 to $15 per week. The 
service is reported as being very satisfac- 
tory. Mr. M. Freudenthal is proprietor. 

The Rio Grande Hotel accommodates 
twenty-five persons ; rates $2 per day, and 
special prices by week or month. Private 
boarding houses and cottages can comfort- 
ably stow away as many as five hundred 
persons, the rates therein varying from $7 
to $15 weekly. The local agent of A. T. & 
S. F. Ry. at Las Cruces will take a personal 
interest in assisting those who do not go to 
hotels to find suitable quarters elsewhere. 

There are also two resorts specially fitted 
up for tourists — The Alameda (a ranch 
resort open the entire year), about a mile 
and a half from the depot, in the center of 
an old Spanish hacienda, surrounded by 
wide alfalfa meadows and shade trees — and 
Van Patten's Camp (summers only), in a 
sheltered mountain nook fifteen miles east 
of and overlooking Las Cruces. CI)C 
Jllanteda (W. E. Baker, Manager), com- 
fortably accommodates thirty to forty 




VAN PATTEN'S RANCH. NEAR LAS CRUCE8. 



guests. Rooms are en suite, with southern 
exposure ; they are of good size and 
comfortably furnished; wide cement 
porches afford opportunities for sun baths. 
Everything about the place — the giant cot- 
tonwoods, fields of alfalfa, fruit orchards and 
flower gardens — suggests and promotes 
quiet and restfulness. The rates are $io 
to $15 per week for room, board and fire. 
Table liberally supplied with a variety of 
eatables, and only the best of packing house 
meats are used. Pure distilled water and 
Jersey cream is provided. Riding and 
driving horses, and vehicles, may be hired 
at reasonable rates. The Alameda fur- 
nishes for its guests facilities to indulge in 
croquet, quoits, bicycling and various indoor 
games. If notice of expected arrival is 
given, guests will be met at the railway 
station; arrangements for accommodations 
should be made in advance. 

The Alameda maybe unqualifiedly recom- 
mended as affording not only the satisfactory 
service of a first-class hotel, but also many 
home comforts and attentions. One is agree- 
ably surprised to find here, so far from 
eastern markets, such a fine table and such 
agreeable surroundings. The presence of 
this admirably conducted suburban hotel 
is a very potent reason for wintering at 
Las Cruces. 

At Van patten's resort (altitude 6,000 feet) 
there is a substantial stone house where as 
many as twenty-five persons may be shel- 
tered at one time. It is the center, in 
summer, of a colony of tenting parties. 



The camp is well protected from winds. A 
hack runs between Las Cruces and Van 
Patten's Camp for patrons of the house at 
$2 round trip. 

A number of well-to-do ranchers near Las 
Cruces receive boarders. 

Five physicians are located in Las 
Cruces, three being lung and throat special- 
ists. There are several competent nurses. 

Las Cruces' advantages as a health resort 
are so pronounced, that a sanatorium will 
some day be built here. In the absence of 
such an institution the present facilities for 
taking care of invalids are very good. The 
Mesilla Valley climate is so mild that out- 
door treatment is availed of to a marked 
degree, and necessary medical services can 
be readily procured to assist Nature's " sun- 
shine cure." 

A prominent local physician writes: "As 
a resort for those afflicted with chronic lung 
trouble, I must say that I know of none 
other equal to it. First and indispensable — 
dryness. The average rainfall per annum, 
eight inches; cloudy and rainy days, about 
thirty. Second, temperature. In winter the 
nights are occasionally cold enough to form 
ice; in spring, summer and fall, cool enough 
to be bracing — no more; never hot. Thirdly, 
elevation. Four thousand feet is just the 
altitude to gently stimulate the circulation, 
and render the breathing easy and free. 
Fourth, sunshine. A bright sun three 
hundred and thirty-five days in the year. 
In winter one can be comfortable from 
9 A. M. to 5 P. M. with only a light overcoat 



in the sunshine. In spring, never too hot. 
In summer, always pleasant in the shade. 
The fall is like the spring. Barring a few- 
exceptional days of windstorm or rainy 
weather, the invalid with chronic lung 
trouble can be in the open air for three 
hundred days in the year. Fifth, a porous 
soil of sand and loam, absorbing immedi- 
ately the little moisture that falls, and suffi- 
ciently rolling to shed the rainfall." 

Seidell Rot Springs, sixteen miles north, 
is patronized by those afflicted with rheu- 
matism. No accommodations here; visitors 
"camp out." 




ENTRANCE TO THE ALAMEDA, LAS CRUCES. 



£d$ ^^^ ^'^y ^^ L^^ Vegas contain, 

Wtf;i< a population of 8,000. The large 
Vv5d$« number of churches, schools, 
residences, business houses, etc., testify to 
the high degree of social culture attained by 
this charming place. The altitude of Las 
Vegas is 6,384 feet. Country to the east is 
level, with high mountains on the west. The 
sun shines nearly every day in the year, and 
long cloudy and foggy periods are unknown. 
The average noon temperature in winter is 
40°; spring, 55°; summer, 80°; autumn, 60°. 

The Castaneda, recently erected near the 
depot and combining the functions of a 
railway eating house and hotel, is managed 
by Mr. Fred. Harvey. It is a long, low 
building, two stories high, faced with brick, 
roofed with red tiles, and, architecturally 
speaking, patterned after the old California 
missions. This hotel is strictly modern in 
every respect and handsomely equipped 
throughout. On the first floor is a commo- 
dious and attractive dining room, a luxu- 
rious office, a billiard room and buffet ; also 
a lunch counter. The office is so furnished 
as to be available for ladies as well as gen- 
tlemen. Upstairs there are thirty-five guest 
rooms, in addition to reception room, parlors 
and the usual accessories of baths, toilets, 
etc. Mr. Harvey's well-known reputation 
as a caterer insures the best of service. 

At the Central Hotel (capacity forty) the 
rates for room and board are $6 per week, 
and at the Plaza Hotel (capacity sixty) $7.50 
per week. The New Optic (capacity fifty) 
charges 50 cents a day for rooms ; no meals 



served. There are five good restaurants, 
which furnish meals at 25 cents. 

The rates in private families are: Mrs. C. 
W. Uptegrove, meals only, $7 per week; 
Mrs. A. D. Higgins, Mrs. C. Wiley and F. 
Herzog, rooms only, $8 to $15 per month. 

St. Anthony's Sanatorium, built and oper- 
ated by the Sisters of Charity, is a beautiful 
structure, containing every convenience and 
comfort for the sick. There are thirty-five 
turnished sleeping rooms, with necessary 
toilet and bath rooms, and hot and cold 
water service. The system of heating and 
ventilation is perfect. The building is pro- 
vided with a complete cuisine department, 
electric lights, hydraulic elevator, etc. 
Terms are moderate being $5 to $15 a week, 
according to attention required. One hun- 
dred invalids can be accommodated. Full 
complement of physicians and nurses. 

Outlying resorts are €1 pofDCnir, sixteen 
miles from the city above the Hot Springs, 
with lake, picnic grounds, etc.; and RarDCp'S, 
ten miles farther away. Both are in the 
mountains. Conveyance from Las Vegas is 
by carriage. Either resort will accommo- 
date twenty guests; rate $7 per week, for 
room and board. The I1?acbetb mineral 
Spring, one mile from East Las Vegas, dis- 
covered by W. R. Macbeth of Denver, is 
noted for its strongly impregnated mineral 
water, flowing from a deep artesian well and 
effecting marvelous cures in cases of rheu- 
matism, indigestion, etc. There are no 
special accommodations at the spring, but 
the water is easily obtained in bottled form. 



£3$ VC^3S ^^^ Vegas Hot Springs 

|- . is practically a village de- 

■'^l voted to recreation and the 

SprinS$« restoration of health. It 

is situated in the northern 
part of New Mexico, on a branch line of 
the Santa Fe Route, (i,'](f] feet above 
sea level, and at the very edge of the 
Rockies. 

A beautiful canon opens at the western 
extremity of the grounds. The Gallinas 
River, whose source is but a few miles 
distant, courses through the property. 
Foothills of the Rockies form an almost 
complete enclosure, thus affording a pro- 
tection against severe winds and sand- 
storms, and materially modifying the tem- 
perature, which in winter is 20° warmer than 
at Denver, and correspondingly cooler in 
summer. 

The building]s are numerous, were 
erected at a large expenditure, and consist 
of The Montezuma, a palatial fire-proof 
structure of stone and iron with several hun- 
dred rooms and all modern conveniences, 
including elevators; numerous cottages 
and annexes ; bath house, hospital, post 
office, casino, station house, schoolhouse ; 
also telegraph and express offices, etc. 
A large park lies in the center. The build- 
ings are steam heated and lighted by 
electricity. 

An irrigated farm belongs to the plant, 
which provides fresh milk, vegetables, etc. 

Thirty hot mineral springs arise within 
the grounds, whose analyses are as follows: 







Parts of Solid Constitu- 






ents Contained in 100,000 




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Parts of Water. 


NUMBER OF 


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2 . . . . 


105.5 


27.36 


16.82 


5.02 


4-03 


9-97 


65-53 


3 • • • • 


120 


27.38 


15.72 


3-04 


2.01 


4.41 


It 


06 


4 . . . . 


92 


23.41 

28.54 


14.62 


2-55 


4.02 


7.20 


33 




140 


16.96 


2.10 


3-03 


8.88 


57 


90 


5 


144 


27.8616.86 


3-30 


2.00 


6.03 


56 


20 


6^" . . . 


140 


28.02 17.98 


1.24 


1.05 


6.60 


55 


63 


7 . . . . 


71 


28.63,17-86 


2.01 


3-02 


6.03 


5 


80 


8 and g . . 


114 


27.86 


10.80 


1-54 


2.01 


? 


54 


60 


10 ... . 


117 


27.70 


15-15 


3-20 


f'i 


5-45 
6.10 


56 


1 


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124 


26.04 


17.86 


1.52 


54 


12 ... . 


[12 


26.03 


15-70 


3-14 


5.26 


6.80 


56 


13 ... . 


136 


28.03 


17.70 


1.50 


3-01 


6.16 


57 


00 


14 ... . 


92 


28.85 


18.00 


1-03 


1.24 


6-93 


55 


40 


15 . • • • 


82 


27.3618.64 


1. 00 


1.16 


? 


55 


90 


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112. t; 


27.36 19.86 


2.01 


1.05 


7. '26 


57 


73 


17 ... . 


112. 5 


27.86 17.22 


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1.06 


5-33 


53 


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18 ... . 

19 ... • 
22 with 20 


96 


26.6317-54 


1.08 


1.00 


? 


56 


16 


106 


26^87 


ii"54 


■;:S 


■i-55 


6.20 


H 


56 


21 ... . 


86 


28.19 


14.10 


1. 10 


? 


56 


95 


22 ... . 


75 


27.3617-32 


I.I5 


1.08 


6.63 


11 


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23 ... . 


123 


28.19,12.50 


2.33 


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6.20 


20 


Cold Sulphur* 




31.01 18.14 11-20 

1 1 


1.20 102 


06 



*Sulphuretted hydrogen gas. 

Note. — Free carbonic acid gas and sulphuretted 
hydrogen gas are found in abundance in most of the 
springs. 

It will be seen the temperatures vary, the 
hottest being 144° Fahrenheit. The mineral 
elements also are so numerous as to be of 
great value as medicinal agents.varying from 
the saline to lithia and sulphur. The waters 
are conveyed by pipes into the bath house 
and natatorium, with little loss of natural 
temperature, and there utilized in the treat- 
ment of various diseases. There is a peat bed 
here. An ample house has been erected in 



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PICNIC PARTY ATS. HOT SPRINGS. 



Miller, Photo. 



connection with the bath department, where 
the peat is employed in the shape of baths, 
being conibined with the hot mineral waters. 
These baths are especially valuable in 
skin, blood, liver, kidney, rheumatic and 
nervous affections, and are a real delight, 
much pleasure being afforded one who 
indulges in them. The natatorium is nine 
feet deep and fifty-four feet long. It is 
filled with hot spring water, and is for the 




THE LAS VEGAS PLAZA. 



entertainment of guests. Price for a nata- 
torium plunge is 35 cents, with suit. A 
partial list of baths, manipulations and 
exercises arranged for the bath department 
(and, in some cases, the prices therefor), is as 
follows: Electric light ($1), cabinet (general), 
bell (local), vapor (75 cents), hot air, hot- 
blanket pack, cold-sheet pack, full tub (35 
cents), half tub, shallow tub, sitz, hot pour, 
pail douche, wet-sheet rub, spray, shower, 
Turkish shampoo, Swedish shampoo, dry- 
shampoo, salt glow (75 cents), oil rub (50 
cents), alcohol rub (50 cents), witch-hazel 
rub (50 cents), electricity, galvanic, faradic 
(general, local), massage (general, local, 
$1.50), effleurage (stroking), petrissage 
(kneading), tapotement (percussion), cen- 
tripetal friction, centrifugal friction, fomen- 
tations, cold compresses, peat ($3), sand, 
plunge. A series of ten or more baths of 
one kind is given at reduced rates. Physi- 
cal development: Dumb-bell exercises, 
breathing exercises, swimming exercises and 
walking exercises. Hunting, fishing, camp- 
ing, mountain climbing and other rugged 
exercises may be indulged in. Carriage 
horses, riding horses and burros are avail- 
able, and guides may be procured to any 
point of interest. 

Guests bringing children may send them 
to school here, the educational facilities 
being excellent. 

Las Vegas Hot Springs has a high and dry 
climate, nature's best restorative elements. 
The air is aseptic, rare as compared with 
lower altitudes, and contains an excess of 




VIEW FROM BALCONY, THE MONTEZUMA. 

ozone. The annual average number of days 
of sunsnine is 344. The average monthly 
precipitation is 1.32 inches, but from Septem- 
ber until June the average is considerably 
less. Mean relative humidity (actual) about 
20°. One may sleep out of doors without 
catching cold. The days are agreeably 
warm. Rarely does the temperature reach 
80° in summer, while the average winter sun 
temperature is 76°. The nights are cool. 

No sandstorms occur at Las Vegas Hot 
Springs. There are no dusty streets to irri- 




BATH HOUSE, LAS VEGAS 
HOT SPRINGS. 



tate the throat. The adjacent mountains 
are covered with verdure, and no dust blows 
from them. High hills almost surround 
Las Vegas Hot Springs, rendering severe 
winds quite impossible. Pine, pinon, cedar 
and spruce trees grow in abundance; thus 
the atmosphere is more or less laden with 
balsamic vapor. Malaria and hay fever are 
unknown in this immediate vicinity. There 
are five hundred acres of park and land, so 
strict sanitary precautions can be observed. 
The water used for drinking purposes is 
taken from one of the hot springs. The 
veranda, surrounding three sides of the 
Montezuma (available for promenades and 
open air exercise), is five hundred and forty 
feet long, fifteen feet wide, and roofed. 

With all these advantages, both natural 
and those that art has added, it is seen that 
Las Vegas Hot Springs is an ideal spot as 
a health resort, and a place for outdoor 
sports, amusements, recreation, rest and 
recuperation, as well as for persons affected 
with disease. The term sanitorium, as applied 
to this charming locality, should be liberally 
construed. The surroundings are just as 
agreeable to the pleasure seeker and general 
tourist as to the invalid in search of health. 
Ample provision is made for both classes. 

The rates at the Montezuma are $2.50 to 
$4 by the day, and $14, $16, $17.50 and $21 
by the week. Where two persons occupy a 
single room a discount of 50 cents each 
is made from daily rates, or $1 each from 
weekly rates. If three occupy the same 
room the weekly rate is reduced $2 each. 
Medical attendance is extra. Special rates 



are granted parties of three or more who 
remain a considerable time. For patients 
a weekly rate is made of $i6 and up; this 
includes board, room and ordinary medical 
attendance and nurse care. 

Las Vegas Hot Springs is six miles from 
the City of Las Vegas, and connects by rail 
with the main line of the Atchison, Topeka 
& Santa Fe Railway at that point. Round- 
trip tickets from principal eastern cities 
may be obtained throughout the year at 
greatly reduced rates. Stop-over privileges 
are allowed all through passengers passing 
this point where tickets permit of such 
arrangement. 



UStOfl Raton (4,000 inhabitants) is sit- 
uated on the southeastern slope 
of the Raton spur of the Rocky Mountains. 

The city is amply protected on the north 
and west, while the country to the south and 
east is open, which makes it a pleasant 
winter resort. The altitude is 6,600 feet. A 
more delightful climate cannot be found on 
the continent, or a more desirable resort 
for persons with weak lungs and kindred 
afflictions. 

Raton is lighted with electricity, and sup- 
plied with pure water from the mountains. 

Splendid roads and drives lead from the 
city to picturesque canons in the adjoining 
mountains, and to the beautiful prairie 
country on the south. 

The canons are well watered by living 
streams and are thickly wooded. Small 



farms, nestling in the hills, add to the beauty 
of the surroundings and the comfort of the 
health seeker. 

The air and water are pure and the atmos- 
phere is dry. These are nature's best 
restoratives, making it practically impossible 
for malaria or hay fever to exist. 

The local hotels and boarding houses 
charge from $4 to $10 per week for rooms 
only, and $25 to $30 per month for board 
and room. 




IN THE COUNTRY NEAR RATON. 



The Palace Hotel, a new stone building 
lately finished and newly furnished through- 
out, can accommodate a few people with 
room or board, or both, at the above-men- 
tioned figures, and in first-class manner. 

At the Gate City Hotel (16 rooms) and the 
Southern (10 rooms) the rates are the same. 

The Depot Hotel, managed by Mr. Fred 
Harvey, is a first-class establishment. Rates 
are $3 per day with a reduction by the month. 



Furnished rooms and board in private 
families may be obtained at reasonable 
rates, and several stock ranches in close 
proximity accommodate those who desire a 
quiet country life. 



C^H The population of San Mar- 

jl^ ^ I cial is 1,200. These figures 
llcarCI^S# include the "old town" and 
the settlements between that section and the 
newer portion along the railroad. The pre- 
vailing nationality of the "old town" is 
Mexican, while the "new town" is prin- 
cipally composed of Americans. San Mar- 
cial lies in the Rio Grande Valley, 100 miles 
south of Albuquerque and 150 miles north 
of El Paso. The altitude at this point is 
4,439 feet, while the mountains which rise 
from the eastern and western borders of the 
valley (fifty and twenty miles distant, respect- 
ively) attain an elevation exceeding 8,000 
feet. Besides being the center of a pro- 
ductive agricultural country, this place is 
also division headquarters of the A. T. & 
S. F. Ry. 

Local records show that the average of 
sunshiny days exceeds 90 per cent through- 
out the year. Noon temperature during fall 
and winter is 55°, and during spring and 
summer, 93*^. As yet no efforts have been 
put forth to supplement these favorable cli- 
matic conditions by providing sanatoriums 
or other adequate accommodations for the 
sick. A few private familes take boarders, 



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and there are three public boarding houses. 
Rooms accommodating two persons cost $5 
to $8 per month, and the price of meals 
ranges from $4 to $10 per week. The Har- 
vey House, at the A. T. & S. F. Ry. depot, 
has limited hotel facilities; meals furnished 
a la carte. 

Two physicians are located in San Marcial 
and there are several nurses here. 

The San Mateo Mountains, twenty miles 
distant, are visited by consumptives, who 
are frequently benefited by the warm, dry 
air, with its balsamic scents and the entire 
absence of impurities. The Rosedale mine, 
thirty miles distant, furnishes an ideal spot 
for summer camping parties. Besides the 
usual scenic attractions, one finds here an 
interesting field for studying the mining of 
gold, which is actively carried on. 



Sdtltd FC '^"^ ^^^^ °^ Santa Fe, cap- 
ital of New Mexico, and 
founded earlier than St. Augustine, lies in 
the central part of the territory on a branch 
line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 
Railway. Estimated population, 7,500; pre- 
vailing nationality, Spanish-American, there 
being about three thousand Americans 
whose blood is not crossed with the Latin 
races. Prevailing religion is Catholic, al- 
though Protestant sects are well repre- 
sented. A fine public school system has 
been established; there is also a college for 
young men and boys, conducted by the 



Christian Brothers, and a like institution for 
girls, in charge of the Sisters of Loretto. 

Santa Fe is noted for its hospitality to 
strangers. Social advantages are all that 
could be desired. Opportunities for out- 
door exercise are various. Good driveways 
lead to points five and ten miles from the 




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SAN FRANCISCO STREET, SANTA FE. 

city. Horseback riding, burro parties, and 
walks up and down the hills near by, afford 
healthful and delightful recreation. 

The chief points of interest for sight-seers 
are: Old San Miguel Church, Chapel of 
Rosario, Governor's Palace, Historical So- 
ciety rooms, Indian villages of Tesuque and 
San Juan, etc. 

The average maximum temperature for 
January is 38°, February 44°, March 52°, 
April6o^,May68°, June 78°, July 82°, August 
80°, September 72*^, October 62°, November 
49° and December 42*^. 

It is a remarkable fact that the average 
number of cloudy days in each month never 



exceeds six, is more frequently four and five 



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and falls as low as two. These facts are 
attested by H. B. Hersey, observer U, S. 
Weather Bureau, and cover records from 
1882 to 1891. 

St. Vincent Sanatorium, under the direc- 
tion of the Sisters of Charity, is designed 
for invalids. The house has twenty-one 
rooms, well ventilated and supplied with 
every possible comfort. Rooms and halls 
are steam heated, open fireplaces abound, 
and electric lights add to the general cheer. 
Special attention is given to the table. 
Meals are served in private rooms, and 
lunches provided for delicate persons, with- 
out extra charge. The nurses are carefully 
trained in their profession. The terms vary 
from $10 to $15 per week, including meals 
and attendance. 





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The Claire Hotel, centrally located in 
the business section of the city, accommo- 
dates fifty guests. This hotel is a three 



story brick building; it is heated throughout 
by steam, and contains thirty sleeping rooms, 
with toilet and bath on each floor. Every 
room is lighted by electricity, and a steam 
elevator completes the conveniences. Rates 
vary from $12 to $16 per week, and $35 to $50 
per month for board and room. The rooms 
are large and commodious, and everything 
first class. 

The Palace Hotel accommodates one hun- 
dred guests, and is one of the best appointed 
hotels in the territory, with a good reputa- 
tion among travelers for comfort. Rates, 
$2.50 to $3 daily; $45 to $65 monthly; special 
inducements offered to tourists; no bar in 
the house. Rates at other good hotels are 
somewhat less. Rooms and meals at board- 
ing houses cost $30 to $35 per month. The 
various hotels, sanatoriums, etc., comfortably 
accommodate 250 people. 




PALACE HOTEL. SANTA FE. 

At the Exchange Hotel (capacity thirty) 
terms are $1.50 per day, $10 per week, $35 
per month; discount to parties or families. 

There are two boarding houses, respec- 



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lively kept by Mrs. M. A. Bush and Mrs. 
W. H. Keller ; each house has accommoda- 
tions for ten guests at $7 to $10 per week 
and $35 to $40 per month. There are also 
various private families who rent rooms for 
light housekeeping, or who rent rooms only. 

Regarding the climatic conditions of Santa 
Fe.one of the leading physicians there states 
that all authorities concur in the value of 
altitude, dryness of atmosphere, the direct 
rays of the sun, and the absence of sudden 
and high winds, in the successful treatment 
of diseases of the lungs. These conditions 
are to be found at Santa Fe to a marked de- 
gree. The altitude is 6,939 feet; the days 
are bright, warm and pleasant, and the 
nights, even in midsummer, sufficiently cool 
to render blanket covering agreeable. At- 
mosphere is free from irritating ingredients, 
and contains an abundance of oxygen, elec- 
tricity and ozone. Drinking water comes 
from the mountains ; it is uncontaminated. 

OjO Caliente — These celebrated hot springs 
are located in the "Cliff Dwellers" region, 



southwestern portion of Taos County, on 
Caliente Creek, a stream emptying into the 
Rio Grande, north of the city of Santa Fe. 
The altitude of Ojo CaHente is 6,292 feet. 
The surrounding country consists of hills 
with volcanic dikes and mesas, traversed 
by a coarse-grained granite. Climate very 
dry, and delightful throughout the year. A 
commodious hotel furnishes accommoda- 
tions for invalids and tourists; meals, lodg- 
ing and baths, $2.50 per day; half rate for 
children; reduced rates by month, or for 
small parties; sixty-five persons easily taken 




SANTA FE'S OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. 

care of. This resort is open winter as well 
as summer, and is liberally patronized both 
by the people of New Mexico and tourists 
generally. 

The waters of these springs contain a 
large proportion of alkaline salts; tempera- 
ture, 90'' to 122''; daily flow, over 300,000 
gallons. Paralysis, rheumatism, neuralgia, 
consumption, catarrh, and like complaints 
are either greatly benefited or cured. All 



kinds of baths given, including plunge, 
shower, steam and mud, and first-class medi- 
cal attendance is always available. 

To reach Ojo Caliente, go by rail from 
Santa Fe to Barranca; round-trip fare, $7.50 
for three-months tickets. The twelve miles 
from Barranca to Ojo Caliente are covered 
by stage. Total distance from Santa Fe 
about fifty miles. 



SilUCr Silver City, the county seat 
^ifll °^ Grant County, is built upon 

^* an elevated plateau, nearly 

6,000 feet above the level of the sea. Ridges 
several hundred feet high immediately sur- 
round the place, while a few miles back are 
mountains several thousand feet in height. 
In this sheltered position it is not deprived 
of sunlight — in fact the large proportion of 
sunshiny days here leads one writer to 
declare that this is "a silver city with a 
golden climate." High winds, with their 
accompaniment of dust and heat, are un- 
known, the greatest recorded velocity here 
being twenty miles an hour. The marvel- 
ous power of the sun's rays so affects the 
air as to render a winter sojourn at Silver 
City a great delight and boon to the afflicted. 
Living outdoors is possible at all seasons. 
There are no sudden changes of temperature, 
and the absence of excessive humidity takes 
away the danger of catching cold. As a 
tonic for tired nerves the climate of this 
place takes first rank. There is a quality 



in the air which quickly builds up wasted 
tissue ; asthma and hay fever are unknown. 

Silver City has aptly been termed an 
American town with a Mexican quarter, as 
distinguished from those towns where Mexi- 
cans predominate. The buildings are sub- 
stantially constructed of brick, and their 
general solidity and neatness are a surprise 
to persons who may imagine this to be only 
a rough mining camp. Present population, 
3,000 ; social advantages excellent. 

Average noon temperature for spring and 
summer is about 80^, and for fall and winter 
70*^; maximum temperature 90"^ and mini- 
mum 28°. Proportion of sunshiny to cloudy 
days is as twenty-eight to one. The annual 
precipitation is only ten inches, most of the 
rain falling during July, August and Sep- 
tember — noon showers, with pleasant morn- 
ings and evenings. 

The city is well supplied with hotels, pri- 
vate boarding houses and restaurants. The 
Timmer House and Broadway and Southern 
hotels charge $2 to $3 per day. Houses and 
rooms are plentiful and cheap ; and house- 
keeping is not expensive. Silver City has 
no sanatorium; but two fine hospitals, one 
owned by the county and the other managed 
by Catholic Sisters of Mercy, are well pre- 
pared to care for invalids. That the ac- 
commodations are sufficient in the main is 
attested by the constantly increasing num- 
ber of people who come to this point to get 
well and go away cured. There are four 
physicians located here, and competent 
nurses may be secured. 



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Socorro Socorro, the county seat of 
Socorro County, is situated on 
the west bank of the Rio Grande River, at 
the base of the Socorro Mountains, the land 
gently sloping from the mountains to the 
river. Altitude, 4,567 feet. 

The city is on the main line of the Atchi- 
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. A branch 
runs west to the Magdalena Mountains. 
There are modern residences, business 
blocks, churches and schools, including a 
school of mines. Population, 3,000. Prin- 
cipal industry is mining. From 1880 to 1895 
the output of gold, silver, lead and copper 
was valued at $58,000,000. 

The water supply is taken from hot 
springs at base of Socorro Mountains, and 
is useful in kidney, liver and blood diseases. 

Climate uniformly delightful; skies bright, 
air pure and bracing. The winters especi- 
ally are very pleasant. Epidemic diseases 
are unknown, and fogs and dews rarely 
appear. 

The rivers, lakes and ponds are the abode 
of geese and ducks in their season. Quail 
are plentiful, and sport may be had chasing 
the "cotton-tail" and jack rabbit. 

Accommodations may be obtained at hotels, 
boarding houses and private families. Rates 
charged vary from $20 to $25 per month. At 
the Windsor hotel sixty persons can be ac- 
commodated ; rates $2 per day, $g per week 
and $25 per month; special terms on applica- 
tion. Rates at the Avenue House (capacity 
twelve guests) are $1 per day,$6 per week and 
$25 per month. Mrs. M . E. Walker runs the 



depot restaurant and boarding house ; as 
many as ten persons can find accommoda- 
tions here at $i per day, $5.50 per week and 
$20 per month. The Park House, kept by 
Mrs. Mary Mead, has accommodations for 
twelve guests ; rate, $1.50 per day. Mrs. A. 
Cortesey rents rooms at $8 per month. A 
rate of $1.50 per day may be obtained at 
Mrs. M. Berry's private boarding house. 

There is no regular sanatorium. Two 
specialists in pulmonary diseases practice 
here ; experienced nurses may be hired on 
reasonable terms. 



W3t^r Water Canon is located on 

^ the east slope of Magdalena 

CdtlOn* Mountains, seventeen miles 
from Socorro by a good wagon 
road; also five miles by wagon from Water 
Canon station on Magdalena branch of 
A. T. & S. F. Ry. This is a much fre- 
quented resort in the summer months, a 
cool, shaded, health-giving and delightful 
retreat; altitude 6,500 feet; a number of 
cottages have been built here. 



K^lll) ^^ "^"^ ^^^^ slope of the Mag- 
dalena Mountains is the town 
of Kelly, a favorite resort during the sum- 
mer months. Altitude 7,000 feet; population 
500, principally interested in mining; one 
hotel; daily mail and passenger stage con- 
nection with Magdalena, three and one-half 
miles distant, which latter point is twenty- 
seven miles from Socorro, by rail. 



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^lirltl^Cr The town of Springer is 
located on the main line of 
the A. T. & S. F. Ry., in Colfax County. 
Altitude is 5,768 feet. Mean annual tem- 
perature, 51°. Precipitation averages ten 
inches annually. The atmosphere is ex- 
ceedingly dry, light and invigorating. 

The six hundred inhabitants are princi- 
pally Americans. Springer has graded 
schools, several churches, two physicians, 
the usual line of retail establishments, two 
good hotels, several private boarding houses, 
and either separate rooms or detached 
houses that may be rented by persons who 
prefer to board themselves. At Springer 
Hotel (capacity forty) the rates are $2 per 
day and $6.50 per week; Montezuma (capac- 
ity twenty), $1 per day and $5 per week ; 
Star Restaurant, meals only, $1 per day and 
$4 per week. Mrs. Pascoe can accommo- 
date a few persons at her boarding house — 
$2 per day, $6.50 per week and $25 per 
month. 

Located within a few miles of Springer, 
and owned by J. C. Taylor, are fine artesian 
wells. 

Not far away are lakes and reservoirs, 
well stocked with bass, perch, carp, etc. 
During the spring and fall these lakes are 
covered with wild ducks, geese and other 
fowl common to this latitude. In the 
mountains, a few miles distant, are plenty 
of deer, bear, turkeys and grouse, and the 
streams are full of mountain trout. 

Springer is fifty-four and sixty-five miles 
distant respectively, from the thriving mining 




HOTEL HIGHLAND ALBUQUERQUE. 

towns of Elizabethtown and Red River 
City; daily stage. This district contains 
some rich placer and quartz gold mines. 
The stage thither enables the traveler to see 
some beautiful mountain scenery, particu- 
larly in Cimarron Canon. 




DOWN QUIET LANES, LAS CRUCES. 



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CdflSbdd ^^ ^^^ southeast corner of 

New Mexico, separated 
from the Rio Grande Valley by high moun- 
tain ranges, is the Pecos Valley region, com- 
prising a wide body of land along the Pecos 
River a distance of one hundred and seventy- 
five miles, from Roswell to Pecos City. 

The valley has a population of nearly 
15,000. The principal towns are Roswell 
(population 2,500), Carlsbad (population 
1,800), Hagerman (population 600) and 
Pecos City (population 1,500). 

In the spring of 1899 a new line was built 
across the plains from Roswell northeast to 
a connection with the Santa Fe Route at 
Amarillo, thus affording quicker transit for 
passengers and freight from the east. 

The Pecos Valley has much to offer the 
homeseeker. Its level, alluvial lands, 
obtainable at moderate prices and on easy 
terms, generously produce alfalfa, sugar 
beets, broom corn, fruits, cereals and vegeta- 
bles. On the adjacent plains immense herds 
of cattle graze, while high-grade cattle and 
hogs are fattened on the alfalfa meadows. 

Most of this vast agricultural wealth is 
due to irrigation, for the climate is naturally 
dry, and the rainfall (varying from twelve to 
eighteen inches annually) is not of itself 
sufficient to mature crops. This very 
deficiency in moisture, however, makes possi- 
ble a climate which has manifold attractions 
for the health seeker. The Pecos River 
rises in the mountains and hence is inde- 
pendent of the rainfall of the plains. 

The altitude varies from 3,000 to^3,8oo feet. 




Htuub HIVtH FLUME. 
THE CHISUM DITCH. 
DIViniNn WATFP AT r^uiciifui 



The atmosphere is clear, warm, 'dry and 
bracing, there being as many as two hundred 
and forty days in each year which are abso- 
lutely clear, and only forty in which moisture 
is precipitated. The winters are brief. 
The summers are not oppressively hot. 
Outdoor life is feasible here nearly every 
day in the year, even for the frailest invalid. 
A porous sandy soil permits of perfect 
drainage, and malaria is unknown. Persons 
afflicted with consumption in its earlier 
stages, bronchitis, asthma, kidney and liver 
complaints, etc., are immediately benefited. 

Occasionally the days are windy, dusty 
and disagreeable — perfect weather does not 
exist anywhere. The preponderance, though, 
is largely on the sunshiny, quiet side, with 
remarkable freedom from blizzards, northers, 
tornadoes and hot winds. 

The mean temperature, expressed in 
degrees Fahrenheit, is: Spring, 63.1; summer, 
79.5 ; autumn, 63.4, and winter, 43.9. Once 
in a whtle during June, July and August 
the thermometer registers an apparent heat 
of more than one hundred degrees. Such 
warmth is exceptional, not long continued 
and is no more oppressive than 80° in the 
east. Only once within the last few years 
has the thermometer fallen below zero, the 
usual minimum being 12° to 20° above zero. 

While the entire valley can appropri- 
ately be termed a health resort, the town 
of Carlsbad, with its ten miles of shaded 
streets and drives and its roadside water 
courses, offers special advantages to the 
health seeker. Just across the river is 



Carlsbad Spring, which every minute pours 

into the Pecos five thousand gallons of 

water strongly impregnated with mineral 

substances. The following analysis institutes 

a comparison with the noted Friedrichshall 

water of Prussia : 

Parts per 100,000. 





1^ 


111 


Sulphate of soda (Glauber's salts) 

Chloride of sodium 


44.02 
50.50 
21.63 
17.40 
14.00 
1.20 
1.20 
2.05 


40.00 
53-10 

0.09 
0.29 

1 .00 


Sulphate of magnesia (Epsom salts).. .. 
Sulphate of lime. . .... 


Carbonat e of lime 

Silicia .... 


Iron and alumina 

Carbonate of magnesia . 






Water of crystallization, etc . . 


3-25 


2.18 






Total solids 


150.25 


1 56 00 







The Friedrichshall spring gives a greater 
amount of magnesian salts ; otHerwise the 
two waters are essentially the same in their 
effects on the system. The Carlsbad water 
is invaluable both as an aperient and 
alterative. 

The only serious drawback at Carlsbad is 
the absence of a sanatorium. Efforts are 
being made to build one, with considerable 
promise of success in the immediate future. 
Meanwhile invalids and others are accom- 
modated at hotels, boarding houses and in 
private families, the rates being similar to 
those charged elsewhere. There is room in 
Hotel Schlitz (Geo. H. Hutchins, pro- 
prietor), a spacious, modern structure, for 



two hundred guests at rates of $2 by the 
day and $10.50 by the week. The service 
at this hotel is first class. Prices are half 
as much at the other hotels, the Eagle and 
the Pecos Valley. 

One finds in Carlsbad an excellent school 
system. There are several church societies. 
The business portion of the town is well built 
up, and the merchants carry large stocks of 
goods. 



H0Sll3dl ^^ ^^^ chief town of this region. 
It has magnificent avenues of 
giant cottonwoods ; also numerous large 
springs and flowing artesian wells, many of 
the latter yielding 2,000 gallons a minute 
and irrigating thousands of acres of land. 
Principal hotels are the Richards and Cen- 
tral, their rates being $1.50 and $2 a day, 
respectively. Boarding houses are numer- 
ous, $30 to $40 a month being charged for 
room and board. Roswell's attractions 
as a place of residence are fully equaled 
by its advantages as a growing business 
center. Its prosperity is mainly based on 
important cattle and sheep interests. 



If only the rich or well-to-do 
were obliged to travel in search 
of health, the problem would be 
a simple one. With a well- 
filled purse supplying every 
needed convenience and luxury, 
the only question would be as 

to the best climate for the particular ailment. 
The invalid of limited means must con- 

side»- the cost of getting well, and is not 



l>ealtl) 

Seekers 

of 

Omited 

means. 




CHILD LIFE AT ISLETA. 



infrequently compelled by that considera- 
tion to go where not only the climate but 
industrial conditions are favorable. What 
immediately follows is intended for those 
who soon after settling in a new home must 
consider the necessity of earning. Not being 
rugged and able to accept the first work 
that offers, the usual alternative will be to 



wrest a subsistence from the soil. Light 
farming, gardening, raising chickens, bees, 
etc., are pleasant and profitable occupations. 

A gentleman who has lived in New Mex- 
ico twenty years, and knows all sections 
thoroughly, is authority for the following: 

Dairp and poultrp.— For a few hundred 
dollars enough cows may be purchased with 
which to start a dairy, and a comfortable 
revenue is assured from the beginning. The 
production and sale of poultry and eggs 
requires less capital, and is almost as remu- 
nerative. Ninety per cent of the butter, 
eggs and poultry consumed in New Mexico 
is shipped in from eastern states. Butter 
never sells for less than 25 cents per pound, 
nor eggs for less than 25 cents per dozen. 
Poultry brings from 10 to 15 cents per pound, 
according to season. Cheese is not made 
here for sale. The higher-priced cheese, 
such as that made in Switzerland from 
goat's milk, can be produced here with 
great profit. Goats pasture themselves, 
and their feed is a nominal item. 

Broom Corn.— Not a broom is made in the 
territory. Nowhere in the world can broom 
corn be raised so easily; the long, dry sea- 
sons are very favorable for curing. It does 
not cost much to set up a small broom 
manufacturing plant. 

Roncp. — Where alfalfa is cultivated, bees 
do well. This is a light occupation, par- 
ticularly suitable for women, and many of 
them have achieved marked success as 
apiarists. Honey commands a good price, 
and the yield is larger than in cold countries. 



fruit— All kinds of fruit are cultivated 
successfully; but it is in the Rio Grande 
Valley, south of Albuquerque, that fruit- 
raising is most extensively carried on. 
Here are many square miles of vineyards 
and orchards, producing thick clusters of 
grapes as large and luscious as if grown in 
sunny France, and pears and peaches that 
rival those of California. Wine of a superior 
quality is manufactured. Apples, peaches, 
nectarines and pears thrive under irrigation 
and yield abundantly. 




NEW MEXICO FRUIT. 

Northern New Mexico, however, is a close 
rival of the southern portion. Take for ex- 
ample the magnificent orchard in the Cana- 
dian River Canon, tributary to Springer, 
containing several hundred acres and owned 
by Mr. Melvin W. Mills. Great six-horse 
wagons are busy nearly every day in the year 
hauling fruit from this orchard to the rail- 
road station. Here are profusely grown the 
best varieties of apples, pears, peaches, 
cherries, plums, prunes, nectarines, apricots, 
quinces, almonds, pecans, walnuts and 



grapes. The orchard is being enlarged 
every year and Mr. Mills reports that even 
partial crop failures are very infrequent. 

l^OgS. — Hams, bacon and salted meats are 
brought in from the east. With alfalfa (four 
tons of which can be raised on an acre of 
ground) and field peas, hogs grow fat, and 
are a bank always paying dividends. Hogs 
may be wintered on alfalfa hay alone. Home- 
cured meats would command ready sale. 



Co Sum lip.— On five acres of land, with 
water privileges, a family of four or five 
persons may make a comfortable living in 
New Mexico. This means work, of course, 
accompanied by economy. Land may be 
bought outright for $35 to $100 per acre, in 
a good state of cultivation; or it may be 
rented on favorable terms. 

Not only can such a family, when located 
near a town or city, raise all the vegetables 
and grain needed for home consumption, 
but by having on hand a few chickens, hogs 
and cows, there will always be something to 
convert into groceries and clothing. In 
most cases ample pasturage exists close at 
hand for the larger stock to range upon. 
Early vegetables find ready sale at prices 
which leave a handsome profit. 

The most profitable houses are built with 
adobe bricks, made from the soil of the 
country mixed with straw. Buildings of 
this material erected two hundred years 
ago are still habitable. A good three-room 
house, finished with second-class lumber, 
need not cost to exceed $150. 



fffiC^CO '^^^ municipal government of 
VJliVUvy p^j-is recently appointed a 

01 special commission for the 

Clim^t^ purpose of determining proper 
Viiiiiutv uiea-sures to prevent contagion 
cure* of tuberculosis in the hospitals 

of that city. This commission 
consisted of twenty-five of the ablest med- 
ical men in France, and this is what they 
conclude on the point of climate cure: 

"What, then, must be done with the 
tubercular case to cure him, while a cure is 
yet possible ? And how ? By the contin- 
ued and regular exposure to outdoor air, 
day and night; by nourishing diet; by long 
rest and sleep. To accomplish this in sana- 
toria many can be cured. Therefore, in a 
general interest, and in the interest of the 
patient himself, he ought to be thus cared 
for apart and separate." 






The following extract is from a very inter- 
esting paper by Dr. J. L. C. Whitconib, of 
Liberty, N. Y. This paper was published 
in the Ne-w York Medical Record of Sep- 
tember 25, 1898. 

" The one point I wish to emphasize with 
all the force I am capable of— the point, the 
importance of which overshadows and min- 
imizes every other consideration in the 
treatment of this subject--is that suitable 
climatic environments are the absolute pre- 
requisite of any successful treatment of 
phthisis, so far as medical knowledge can 
affirm at the present time. Of no other 
disease can this be said. In a nutshell, our 
one rational treatment is: (l) early diagno- 
sis; (2) a suitable climate. Give the patient 
the benefit of these, and we give him nine 
chances to get well to one against it. * * * 
What is needed is oxygen — the oxygen of 



pure, dry air. This alone is a specific in 
early phthisis. It will not cure every case; 
no specific does that; but it will cure nine 
in every ten, providing enough of the rem- 
edy is taken." 




CHURCH AT SOCORRO, 300 YEARS OLD. 



One of the most important medical gath- 
erings of recent times has just closed its 
sessions in Moscow, Russia. The occasion 
was the meeting of the International Medi- 
cal Congress. It brought together more 
than seven thousand medical men, among 
whom were the recognized leaders of every 
civilized country. One meeting was devoted 
to the discussion of the present methods of 
treating tuberculosis. The quotations given 
below are from papers read by some of these 
great men. 

By Dr. Von Ziemssen, of Vienna: "As far 
back as we can see in the history of medi- 
cine, fresh air has been one of the require- 
ments in the treatment of tuberculosis, but 
it is only of late that the advantage of high 
altitudes has been clearly demonstrated. 
That tubercular patients can get a quantity 
of fresh air in these regions is evident to 
anyone who has visited the places; * * * 



but the f^esh air that surrounds them is not 
all; the altitude brings about an excitation 
of the blood-making organs that increases 
the corpuscular elements in the blood. Even 
in health this reaction takes place, but not 
so markedly as in diseased states." 

By Dr. Senator, of Berlin: "I am con- 
vinced that the only treatment of value is 
the climatic, and I believe high altitudes 
are of value. I regard altitude as a factor 
second only in importance to fresh air. 
Sunlight is also of great value, and the 
sun's rays themselves exert a particular 
influence." 



OLD CHURCH AT CIUDAD JUAREZ. Eushon-& Fel.lman, Photo. 

By Dr. Von Leyden, of Berlin, Germany, 
greatest general practitioner: " We must 
not look to the future ; we are living in the 
present and must treat in the present. So 
far the only treatment that has given any 
success is the climatic. My best results 
have been obtained in mountains. The 
more comfortable a patient be made there 
the better, as a rule, will be the results." 

By Dn Kornig, Court Physician of St. 
Petersburg: "I have found an increase in 
the red blood-cells in patients who have 



gone to high altitudes, and I am inclined to 
attribute to this increase a large part of the 
benefit derived from mountain sanatoria." 

By Dr. Jarvein, of St. Petersburg, and 
Professor in the Military Academy of St. 
Petersburg: "After listening to the greatest 
authorities in Europe on the treatment of 
phthisis in mountain sanatoria, I believe 
there can be but little doubt in the minds of 
those present that this is at present the only 
mode of treatment." 

By Dr. Vivant, of Monte Carlo, Riviera, 
France: "The climate must be justly re- 
garded as of value in the treatment of this 
disease (tuberculosis), and offers a certain 
number of features in common, viz: Pure 
air, that is, oxygen in an unlimited quantity; 
and dryness, that is, absence of fogs, of air 
charged with moisture, to interrupt light, 
heat and chemical action of the sun's rays." 

Granted that the change to a dry climate 
will often cure consumption, both physicians 
and patients should be impressed with the 
necessity of making the change at an early 
stage of the disease. The following extracts 
from an article in the Chicago Medical Vis- 
itor for February, 1899, written by Dr. W. A. 
Shepard of Colorado Springs, are timely 
and merit careful perusal : 

"A careful study into the history of those 
who have come to Colorado on account of 
tubercular diseases leads one to conclude 
that the stamping out process must begin 
first of all with the patient and his physi- 
cian. * * * There are patients who under- 
stand the gravity of this disease and are on 
the watch for the first sign of its approach, 
and are all ready to make a change of cli- 
mate at once, realizing that that offers them 
the only chance for life. There are physicians 



who watch their patients closely and recog- 
nize the first symptoms of the disease and 
advise an immediate change of climate. 
Occasionally we find patients who admit that 
their physician ordered a change of climate 
the first time they consulted him, but they 
insisted that he should try everything he 
knew of, as they really could not leave 
home. * * * * f hg patients should be 
instructed by the physician that they may 
know the first signs of this disease, and 
should understand that, no matter what the 
sacrifice, in order that their lives may be 
saved they must go into a high, dry air. The 
question of stamping out this disease is an 
educational one, and the family physician 
and the press are the educators. Until some 
effectual and radical cure is discovered, the 
only means now known for stamping out 
consumption lies in an early recognition of 
the first symptoms of the disease, and an 
immediate change to a high, dry climate." 



Whdt ^^' ^EO^^^ Halley, Pro- 

aJ^i*! . fessor of Surgery, Kansas 
DOClOrS City Medical College, says: 
Sd13 of "New Mexico possesses the 
IrtA seven great requisites of a 

IcvU) sanatorium for the treatment 

|f>Avi^A of consumptive patients and 
■ iCV/vivv* ^^Qgg suffering from bronchial 
and certain forms of throat affections, ist. 
A very dry and aseptic air, experiment 
showing that the atmosphere is as free from 
harmful bacteria as that of midocean— the 
purest known to science. 2d. A light at- 
mospheric pressure caused by the high 
altitude of the country, and ample table- 
lands where the air has free movement and 
the rays of the sun uninterrupted play. 3d. 
A maximum of sunshine and minimum of 
cloud. 4th. A slight variation of tempera- 
ture only between "the extremes of heat and 



cold. 5th. A minimum likelihood of sud- 
den changes of temperature. 6th. A light, 
porous, dry soil. 7th (and very important). 
A low dew point. I have sent many 
patients there, and the result has always 
been beneficial. 

"It seems, at first sight, a long distance 
for patients to travel from France to New 
Mexico; but there is, I believe, no climate 
in Southern Europe or Northern Africa — the 
localities hitherto utilized for this purpose 
by Europeans — that can compare for a 



PUEBLO OF 
SANTA CLARA. 



moment with that of New Mexico and 
parts of Colorado, for the treatment of 
consumption." 

Dr. O. D. Walker, Professor of Physiol- 
ogy and Diseases of the Nervous System in 
the Keokuk Medical College, Keokuk, Iowa, 
and formerly physician in charge at the 
United States Government Indian School, 
Lawrence, Kan., makes the following inter- 
esting and valuable report of his observa- 
tions in New Mexico: 



"I look upon the climate of New Mexico, 
especially the southern part, as an ideal one 
for persons suffering from lung troubles, 
principally because of the light, dry, equable 
atmosphere and almost constant sunshine. 

"My visits there, have all been made in 
the winter time and in the vicinity of Las 
Cruces. On one of these trips I left Las 
Cruces January 22, and traveled in a moun- 
tain wagon across to the Mescalero Apache 
Agency; distance about one hundred and 
twenty-five miles. The weather was de- 
lightful, air light and bracing, and, except 
early mornings and late evenings, one could 
ride comfortably without an overcoat. 

"I have carefully observed the salutary 
effects of this climate upon patients. A 
young lady, age about eighteen, came to me 
July 1, 1896, suffering from incipient phthisis. 
She was having night sweats, losing flesh, 
looked pale and suffered from a very dis- 
tressing cough. The microscope showed 
an abundance of tubercle bacilli. I used 
creosote and injections of Paquin's serum 
without marked benefit, and finally advised 
her to go to Las Cruces, N. M., which she 
did. Her cough rapidly improved, and the 
night sweats stopped; she gained twenty 
pounds in flesh in a few months and grew 
strong and hearty. I saw her in Keokuk, 
July 5 last. She seemed to be perfectly 
well. Had she remained in the Mississippi 
Valley I think she would have succumbed 
to this then rapidly progressing disease 
within six months, under any line of treat- 
ment." 

Dr. E. W. Schauffler said (in a paper 
read before the American Climatological 
Association), speaking of southern New 
Mexico and the close adjoining portion of 
Texas: 

"It is the winter temperature to which I 
wish to call attention, as well as the small 
amount of rainfall and the small number of 



cloudy days, these conditions combining to 
constitute the charm of the winter, during 
which season the invalid can walk, or even 
sit, out of doors almost every day. Com- 
bined with the mild temperature, there is, 
as I have before remarked, a bracing tonic 
quality to the air, due, perhaps, in part, to 
its rarity and dryness, which I have failed 
to find in the air of Florida, of the Gulf, or 
even of San Antonio, Texas. 

"In view of its mild winter climate, its 
altitude, the great dryness of the atmosphere 
and soil, and the remarkable preponderance 
of clear and fair days, especially during the 
winter and spring months, I think it must 




PUEBLO OF LAGUNA. 

be conceded that this region presents many 
of the requisites of a winter resort for per- 
sons suffering from pulmonary complaints. 
Nor is this merely a theoretical conclusion. 
It is confirmed by the experience of a con- 
siderable number of asthmatic, bronchitic 
and phthisical patients who have already 
tested the virtues of this climate." 



" The highest interior of our continent 
comprised in the great table-land extending 
from the Great Divide in Colorado, through 



New Mexico, is not excelled anywhere in 
the world as a resort for consumptives. The 
altitude, the dryness, the purity of atmos- 
phere, and the large amount of ozone it 
contains, combine to create conditions very 
favorable to recovery from phthisis." — Dr. 
Gatchell, in The Medical Era. 

"The air here (New Mexico) is very dry; 
by its rarity is tonic and stimulating. The 
various altitudes and latitudes give a great 
variety of climates as to temperature and 
atmospheric tenuity, but all are alike in 
dryness."— F. H. Atkins, M. D., S. B., in 
The Cliinatolocrist 



The Los Angeles Bullion says: "The 
climate of New Mexico leaves nothing to 
desire, and it constitutes an element of 
growth and prosperity in the future that is 
too important to remain neglected. As an 
example of its salubrity, our readers will re- 
member that a few years ago Jay Gould, 
after exhausting the sanatoriums of the 
world without obtaining relief from his ills, 
was restored to good health by his residence 
in El Paso of two months' duration, and it 
is a matter of record that his physicians are 
responsible for the statement that, had he 
continued to dwell there, he would in all 
probability be well and living to-day." 



What follows is taken from the New 
York Herald: "Dr. Yandell affirms that 
no cases of consumption originate at El 
Paso, and if deaths by accident be excepted 
from his tables, the actual mortality of the 
city was only 59, or 5.36 per 1,000. It would 
be hard to find a town on the continent with 
a smaller death rate. Several years ago the 
Herald urged upon physicians the desirabil- 
ity of establishing winter resorts in the 



p 



southwest. The southwest has climate 

advantages for certain classes of invalids 

superior to those of southern France. It 

would surely be a great boon to the many 

thousands of people in the northern parts of 

the country who have to flee annually from 

our severe winters and springs, to have the 

choice of a southwestern health resort." 

* 
* * 

"New Mexico is fast becoming a favorite 
resort for consumptives, and as physicians 
learn more of its advantages it will grow still 
more rapidly in favor. Its uniform tempera- 
ture, almost constant sunshine, and its dry, 
rare atmosphere, are elements that commend 




TESUQUE INDIAN VILLAGE. 



this climate to our consideration." — F. E. 
Wax AM. M. D., Professor of Laryngology 
and Rhinology, College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, Chicago. 

"I THINK that New Mexico surpasses any 
locality for consumptives I have yet visited, 
and I have been all over California, Colo- 
rado, the south, the Sandwich Islands and 
Europe. * * * I am decidedly of the 
opinion that the region visited is, for con- 
sumptives, superior to any other part of the 

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CATHOLIC CHURCH, LAS VEGAS. 

CATHEDRAL AT ISLETA. 

SAN FELIPE CHURCH, ALBUQUERQUE 



United States or the world, of which I have 
any practical knowledge." — J. F. Danter, 
M. D., in Medical Visitor. 

The Kansas City Medical Record, a high 
authority on such matters, in an editorial 
upon the subject of " Health Resorts," 
speaks as follows : 

"It has been a great satisfaction to us to 
find our opinion regarding the sanitary 
characteristics of New Mexico indorsed in a 
most significant manner by some very high 
authorities on the subject. Some time ago 
a party of medico-scientists, commissioned 
by the Societe Medicale of France arrived in 
New Mexico, after inspecting many parts of 
the world held in high esteem as winter and 
summer resorts for consumptives. 

"Their object in thus journeying was to 
examine and report upon the sanitary quali- 
fications of these different localities and 
countries, the end in view being the location 
of a large sanatorium for the treatment of 
consumption. The commission (with, we 
believe, the exception of one member per- 
sonally interested in another locality) 
reported upon New Mexico as in every 
respect better suited for such a purpose than 
any country they had visited, including far- 
famed Algeria and other places heretofore 
noted as health resorts, especially empha- 
sizing the fact that a case of consumption 
was never known to have originated in New 
Mexico." 



From an article in Canadiafi Practitioner, 
Toronto, Can., written by Dr. J. F. McCon- 
nell, of Las Cruces: 

" Dryness is not only a ' useful adjunct,' 
but a most important factor in the climate 
cure. 'Tubercle cannot live without mois- 
ture' (Baumgarten); a moist air therefore 
nourishes, a dry air tends to destroy it. The 
breathing of pure, dry air, not by fits and 
starts, but constantly, constitutes what we 



desire. In regard to altitude, the physician 
must decide in each case as to suitability, as 
much depends upon the physical condition 
of the patient. It is commonly known that 
there is established a certain immunity from 
phthisis in mountainous districts. The geo- 
graphical and climatic conditions as found 
here in Las Cruces may be taken as a type 
of southern New Mexico, one of the districts 
which, in my opinion, ranks first in provid- 
ing the requisites of a suitable climate for 
pulmonary troubles," 



The extracts below are taken from "Some 
Misconceptions of New Mexico Corrected," 
written by Dr. Wm. Curtiss Bailey for the 
Medical Record of New York. Dr. Bailey 
is at present medical director of The Monte- 
zuma, Las Vegas Hot Springs : 

* * "While all portions of the United 
States east of longitude 97° W. have a con- 
tinuous monthly average of more than one 
inch, New Mexico is exempt during this 
portion of the year. But while it is true 
that New Mexico is thus exempt, there is no 
month in which some precipitation is not 
recorded ; there is no month in which there 
are no stormy days ; there is no month in 
which there is not danger from exposure. 
The advantage is found in the difference in 
amount of precipitation, which gives New 
Mexico a far greater number of days of 
sunshine per year, with a minimum number 
of stormy days, together with all the bene- 
fits which naturally follow from such excess 
of sunshine and such diminution of precipi- 
tation. 

"The directions not infrequently given by 
physicians to patients sent to this territory 
are something like this: 'Goto the table- 
lands of New Mexico, where are dryness, 
altitude, and excess of sunshine. Select a 
home, on ranch or in town, where you may 
obtain wholesome food. Live out of doors 



all you can. Seek medical advice when 
required. Depend upon climate and exer- 
cise to restore you to health.' This is whole- 
sale advice prescribed in a wholesale way, 
with evident unfamiliarity with the general 
results accruing therefrom. Patients should 
be more carefully selected to whom such 
advice is given. The prescription should be 
more explicit, and warnings more frequent. 
It should not be expected that invalids, 
whose constitutions are impaired by disease; 
whose vitality is reduced below the normal; 
who are surrounded with home comforts 
and luxuries; who have been more or less 
under close medical supervision; who are, 
as a rule, unfamiliar with the favorable or 
unfavorable conditions affecting the disease 
which compels their absence; who, since 
they are invalids, are in no wise proper per- 
sons to direct their own case, can safely 
exchange home life for ranch life, to 'rough 
it' as best they may. * * * It is an error to 
presume that patients unfitted to conduct 
their own case at home without medical 
supervision can do so in New Mexico. It is 
an error to presume that invalids who have 
made no special study of climatotherapy 
shall know how intelligently to obtain favor- 
able results, because removed to a location 
possessing improved climatic conditions. 
It is an error to presume that any of nature's 
remedies are exempt from the generally 
recognized law that intelligence and experi- 
ence shall direct their use. Whereas, it is 
true that in the table-lands of New Mexico 
are found excess of sunshine, increased dry- 
ness, higher altitude, a minimum of precipi- 
tation, and less variation of temperature 
than in other sections of the continent, yet 
it is not all sunshine. There are cloudy and 
there are stormy days. There are days that 
have considerable wind. There are times 
when it is dangerous to expose one's self. 
There is an intelligent way to take advan- 
tage of the conditions prevalent here, and 



there is an erroneous way. There is, per- 
haps, no section possessing so great a union 
of nature's forces favoring restoration to 
health, yet caution must be exercised if 
proper advantage be taken of it." 

* * 
" New Mexico is by far the most favor- 
able residence in the United States for 
those predisposed to or affected with 
phthisis. * * * In a service of three 
years in New Mexico, during which period 
I served at eight different stations, I saw 
but three cases of phthisis, and these were 
in persons recently arrived from elsewhere." 
— W. A. Hammond, ex-Surgeon-General 
U. S. A. 

* 

Dr. S. D. Swope, of Deming, N. M., con- 
tributes an article to the American Prac- 
titio7ier a7id News on the advantages of the 
Western plateau in the treatment of phthisis 
pulmonalis. Among other things he says : 

"I conclude that southern New Mexico 
comes nearer fulfilling all the requirements 
for the advantageous treatment of pulmo- 
nary diseases than any other region with 
which I am familiar. =5= * * I do feel war- 
ranted in asserting that most phthisical 
patients sent to this climate in time, placed 
in desirable surroundings and given the 
regular palliative and supporting treat- 
ment, will come nearer recovering from 
phthisis than under any other now known 
treatment." 



Dr. Frank E. Waxham, writes to the Jour- 
nal of the Aniericaii Medical Association, 
on the subject of "Where Shall We Send 
Our Tubercular Patients?" The following 
extracts are taken from that portion of his 
article referring to New Mexico: 

"Arriving at Las Vegas (altitude of 6,500 
feet) we find a thrifty and inviting little city 



of 6,000 people. Five miles from Las Vegas 
are the hot springs, where there is a good 
sanitarium. On account of the altitude the 
winter climate is still too much like that of 
Colorado ; the summer climate, however, is 
excellent. 

"Santa Fe is a quaint old city, one of the 
oldest in the United States, and still half 
Mexican. The altitude is 7,000 feet, too 
great for most invalids. The summers are 
most delightful and the air is pure, dry and 
exhilarating. As a summer retreat from the 
hot plains of New Mexico it is an ideal 
place, but as a winter resort for advanced 
cases, with large lung involvement, rapid 
pulse, high fever, dyspnea and sensitive 
skin it is entirely unsuitable. The usual 
boarding houses are to be found, and there 
IS a Sisters' hospital, where the best of 
accommodations can be obtained. 

"Albuquerque is a city of 10,000, one-half 
Mexican. The altitude is 5,000 feet. There 
are many good boarding houses. The 
rates are from $S to $10 a week. I look 
upon the climate of Albuquerque as one of 
the very best to be found in the southwest. 
The winters are warm and delightful, and 
while the summers are hot, they are not 
distressingly so. The nights are fairly com- 
fortable, even m the warmest season. 

"There are but few cities in New Mexico 
that offer many inducements to invalids, 
and when we have mentioned Las Vegas, 
Santa Fe and Albuquerque we have named 
them all, with the possible exception of Las 
Cruces, Silver City, Deming and Carlsbad. 

Las Cruces is a village of 3,000 and 
has an altitude of 3,800 feet. It is south of 
Albuquerque, and but forty miles from 
El Paso. The winter climate is ideal. There 
is hardly a day in the whole winter that one 
can not safely and comfortably sit out in the 
sun all day long. The houses are adobe and 
usually but one story in height. The board- 
ing houses are few in number and only a 



small number of patients can be accommo- 
dated. Excellent board and comfortable 
lodging for about one dozen invalids can be 
had at the Alameda. 

"Silver City is a mining town of 3,000. It 
has an altitude of 5,800 feet. The climate is 
magnificent, there being but thirty-seven 
cloudy days in the year. 

"Going still farther south we enter south- 
western Texas at El Paso. The altitude is 
3,000 feet and the population 10,000. The 
hotels are fairly good and there are many 
good boarding houses, but the number is 
far too few to accommodate the many inva- 
lids that flock here from all parts of the 
north during the winter season. Board 
varies from $8 to $15 a week. Many rent 
furnished rooms and take their meals at the 
Chinese restaurants, which are the best to 
be found in the town." 




Distance ana Jlltitude. 



PLACES. 




St 

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S* 
l| 


1^ 


Raton ....... 

Springer 

Las Vegas 

Las Vegas Hot Springs . 

Santa Fe 

Albuquerque .... 
Jemez Hot Springs . . 
Sulphur Springs . . . 
Camp Whitcomb . . . 
Ojo Caliente .... 

Los LUNAS 

Socorro 

San Marcial .... 

Las Cruces 

El Paso ...... 

Deming 

Silver City 

Carlsbad (See note t) . 


1,134 
1,174 
1,245 
1,251 
1,328 
1,377 
1,422 
1,434 
1,395 
1,378 
1,397 
1,452 
1,479 
1,587 
1,630 
1,607 
1,655 
1,326 


675 

716 

786 

793 

869 

918 

963 

975 

936 

919 

938 

994 

1,021 

1,128 

1,172 

1. 149 

1,197 

868 


285 
325 
396 
402 
479 
528 
573 
585 
546 
529 
548 
603 
630 
738 
781 
758 
806 
1,083 


6,622 
5.768 
6,384 
6.767 
6,939 

4,933 
6,620 
8,250 
8,000 
6,292 
4,833 
4,567 
4,439 
3,873 
3.687 
4,315 
5.796 
3,200 



* Distances from Denver are figured via La Junta. 
The present most direct train service is via Pueblo 
and Trinidad which shortens the distance about fifty- 
five miles to each destination named. 

t Mileage from Chicago and Kansas City is 
computed via Amarillo ; from Denver via El Paso. 



Index. 



Page 

Albuquerque g 

Camp Whitcomb 15 

Carlsbad 63 

Coyote Mineral Springs 12 

Deming 15 

Distance and Altitude 91 

Efficacy of Climate Cure -jt, 

El Paso 18 

El Porvenir :^'t, 

Harvey's 33 

Health Seekers of Limited Means ... 68 

Introduction 5 

Jemez Hot Springs 13 

Kelly 59 

Las Cruces 21 

Las Vegas 31 

Las Vegas Hot Springs 35 

Ojo Caliente 51 

Outline Map of New Mexico 93 

Raton 43 

Roswell 67 

San Marcial 45 

Santa Fe' 47 

Selden Hot Springs 29 

Silver City 53 

Socorro 57 

Springer 61 

Sulphur Springs 13 

Van Patten's 27 

Water Canon 59 

What Doctors Say of New Mexico ... 78 




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